Thai Dhupp and Princess Joy's Thai House Build

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

hello HappyDane.. thanks.. I think!

ummm... which is 'my' avatar!?

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Hello TD,
I like the photo you have posted that has the #56. Well, I just got happily surpriced seeing it after having looked at you avatar many times in BIF´s thread. I got hooked on his thread about house building. My answers and comments to his thread never showed up. Actually I find it difficult to make posts in this forum, but for some reasons it seems to succeed for me in your thread. I shall start reading your thread, too.
My wife and I have a house 75 kms west of Udon Thani. She made it 25 years ago and we had it modernised in 1999 and 2017.
Regards
Jens

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Originally Posted by HappyDane

Actually I find it difficult to make posts in this forum

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Until you get 50 posts it can be painfull. After that posts do not need mod approval so no prob.

This is a great thread. Dupp has done a brilliant job. :1st:

OK after the trumpeting of ''starting zone 3(C)''... it all went quiet at TD Towers, eh?

''Yah..sorry 'bout dat''.

Anyway...K.Pot and PJ did the good luck ceremony and contract signing on 2nd November and he is officially starting on 17th November with a 4-month build time.

That fits nicely with my plans to vacate the 'day job' at the end of March 2020.

so.. to re-cap, heres some pictures of where we left off after zone 1 and 2 were finished....

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This shows the starter bars and columns ready to add on zone 3

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looking towards zone 2 from the area where the pool will go

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Side view of the same area. this will not be visible with that th1rd part is constructed

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And here's the other side (dining room, office,kitchen downstairs, bed 1 suite and bed 2 upstairs)

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View from out side the boundary wall, looking towards where the part 3 construction will be added

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and same location looking towards dining room and bedroom 1 balcony.

You can just see 'the lady who wanted 1 mill for her small plot ' next door now building her little bungalow.

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The Sala arrangements

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From the upstairs balcony in front of the living room, towards the palm plantation

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from bedroom 1 towards the balcony and the landscape beyond

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PJ getting ready for that ceremony

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yep..that table is ready!

And... just in case anyone is interested, here's my latest lil 'day job' construction....

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Not in any particular order - i just uploaded them

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Originally Posted by Norton

Until you get 50 posts it can be painfull. After that posts do not need mod approval so no prob.

This is a great thread. Dupp has done a brilliant job. :1st:

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I thank you kindly!!

....soon I will be rivalling War n Peace.

Great looking house TD, with that 3rd addition you're going to need to carry a map with you so you don't get lost :)


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What kind of material is being used to cover the structure?

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Originally Posted by dennis4558

.......What kind of material is being used to cover the structure?

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It's Stainless Steel, Dennis. every one of the 1024 panel are different.

All have lighting built into the glass so that at night, the glass can be lit.

Those windows form Arabic letters spelling out the poetry of HH Sheikh Mohammed.

OK - the day has finally arrived!

yet..K.Pot is commencing the final part of the house build today, 17th November 2019. I think he picked the day after the lottery draw just in case he won the jackpot and could hang his work-gloves up for 12 months.. anyway...

Clearly he did not scoop the 6 numbers this time and so..mobilisation has commenced.

Prior to that, we sprayed the work area to kill off the grass and make it clear so that he could find his previously buried piles - if you remember, we piled zone 1,2 and 3 the first time round so that we did not need the rig again.

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so... lets see some action!

Yesterday, he made some of the deliveries in readiness to start today - cement, steel, etc.

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Will they last once those Laos workers are back on site? ...I think not!!

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Round 2 or 3.
Looking forward to the continuing pictorial saga, Dhupp.

Best to ya.
Cheers.

:)

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Originally Posted by HuangLao

Round 2 or 3.
Looking forward to the continuing pictorial saga, Dhupp.

Best to ya.
Cheers.

:)

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Hey hey.. hi there HL... thanks, yes this is round 3, or part 3 or part C, not sure what we are calling it!

Its a smaller structure, measuring 14m x 4m wide.

2 bedrooms/ensuites upstairs and a gym and media room , plus pool-changing room/ bathroom downstairs.

About 4 months start to finish, K.Pot says

Making a start...

Yep... they have actually started doing something now...machines and people on site.

This time they will not be making a big camp like the first time.... I think one person will be staying overnight for 'security' though I suppose the thinking is, with the wall and gates in place there is already some deterrent and security.

The contract protects me from any material losses incurred during the build.

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1st job...those all-important 'chairs' for the rebar, both for slab and column cages.


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Meanwhile, the mini-digger makes its second appearance at TD Towers... first job for this one is to uncover the piles already in place.


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At least the existing building creates a shaded rest zone for the cars and people.
They have been instructed to NOT start eating lunch / dinner in zone 2 downstairs unless there is a full cover for the tiles.

Oh yes...there was one small 'issue' that occurred just before K.Pot made a start...

He had a load of sand delivered.. trouble was, he forgot to have someone open the gate, so the truck driver just tipped it outside on the road.

across 75% of the road.

It wasn't long before someone could not get through - the police were called, who in turn called.... the Orbortor.

Thank goodness we are friends. He smoothed it over, then got K.Ek (land office engineer) to call PJ

Then he fixed for a tractor to go there and push it all into the verge.

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Problem solved (though my bushes got buried) for now, and K.Pot will have to supply the whiskey this time.

Yep - again...it was definitely worth cultivating that relationship.

Hi Thai Dupp. Just a quick question on some of the photos if I may. What is purpose or meaning of the arrow that appears in the top right of some of the photos?

Sorry if the question has been asked and answered previously.

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Originally Posted by Neverna

Hi Thai Dupp. Just a quick question on some of the photos if I may. What is purpose or meaning of the arrow that appears in the top right of some of the photos?

Sorry if the question has been asked and answered previously.

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Actually, Nev... I really do not know!

Its from the 'on-site' photographer's phone - I think it must just be in the settings - there is a date stamp too. I will ask him when I go back in December.

At the moment, he's shooting mainly video and forgetting to do the photos - I don't want to ask him now or it might get 'lost in translation' and then I end up not getting anything.

I will get to the bottom of it tho..

You should have just said it was rice, not sand .......it’s apparently OK to cover the roads with rice. Going thru town on the scooter this morning, I am just about to turn down the road to my SiL when I see it is blocked with rice drying. No problem, I’ll go down the next soi.....nope, rice over this one too (but at least they blocked it off at the corner with lengths of bamboo).

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

And... just in case anyone is interested, here's my latest lil 'day job' construction....


https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2019/11/182.jpg


Not in any particular order - i just uploaded them

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TD its a nice epitaph for you, the worlds biggest Clit Ring, not sure how that comes across in your CV :) Presumably the inscriptions are from "The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight"

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Originally Posted by NamPikToot

TD its a nice epitaph for you, the worlds biggest Clit Ring, not sure how that comes across in your CV :) Presumably the inscriptions are from "The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight"

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Hi NPT!...

I'll just check with HH Sheikh Mo next time I'm round there for tea. It was him wot wrote it ......

(that's not me in the gay-boy pose in front of it, BTW....)

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Originally Posted by mikenot

You should have just said it was rice, not sand .......it’s apparently OK to cover the roads with rice. Going thru town on the scooter this morning, I am just about to turn down the road to my SiL when I see it is blocked with rice drying. No problem, I’ll go down the next soi.....nope, rice over this one too (but at least they blocked it off at the corner with lengths of bamboo).

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Yeah Mike... but we only really got to hear about it AFTER it was all cleaned up off the road.

Funny when we were told 'cos the message was that the delivery truck could not get through the gate, and I'm thinking ''fcuk! the gates 5m wide! how big IS this truck!?''

(not thinking anyone would order material then forget to open that gate...)

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Originally Posted by Neverna

Hi Thai Dupp. Just a quick question on some of the photos if I may. What is purpose or meaning of the arrow that appears in the top right of some of the photos?

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

Actually, Nev... I really do not know!


Its from the 'on-site' photographer's phone - I think it must just be in the settings - there is a date stamp too. I will ask him when I go back in December.

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Hi TD, I've just done a bit of googling. It appears the arrow might be a notificationn from the phone (Samsung) to tell you that the photo has not been backed up to Samsung cloud storage yet.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/as...does-mean.html

Whoops - I forgot to post some updates pix of the progress...

Here goes:

Uncovering the piles.

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Fabricating the ring-beam steel

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You can see the pile caps already in place - sorry - I did not have a photo of that. I do have video though, which will appear at a later date.

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K.Pot is racing ahead, because he started late and wants to get paid at the end of the month.

All the steel in place

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Shuttering fitted. Just waiting for the concrete now...

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Ring beam poured and struck

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This nearest room will be the media / cinema room
I will get some cinema chairs to watch the big screen and PJ will be on hand to dish out the pop-corn and ice-creams.
well... i have not run it past her yet but there shouldn't be any problem if she gets up half way through the movie to go make the burgers/fries and bring in some cold beers....

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The (reduced) build team already marching ahead with more cages

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

PJ will be on hand to dish out the pop-corn and ice-creams.
well... i have not run it past her yet but there shouldn't be any problem if she gets up half way through the movie to go make the burgers/fries and bring in some cold beers....

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Good luck with that, probably safer to hire a movie attendent :smileylaughing:

Right... after another long pause, partly due to Museum of the Future commitments and partly due to crappy pix from the ob-site photographer... lets update:

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Soil delivery to fill in between that plinth beam. I initially thought of getting k.Pot to dig the required material from the swimming pool area but then... he quoted to import it, and I will be able to use the pool dug material to raise up the area on the edge of 'Mango-land' where the car port will eventually go.

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K.Pots famous mini-digger placing the material. The fact that he had all the equipment that he does, and he used it at no charge to me, was a massive bonus.

He has everything.

I did not hire one piece of equipment on the entire build. From concrete skips, vibrators, cranes, diggers, trucks, etc etc I really saved.

A good thing to check for any members planning a build, and looking to narrow down the choice of builder

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Soil being placed, and notice all the plumbing is in too. Sorry, I did not have a photo of that, only video

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Placement underway

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

Soil delivery to fill in between that plinth beam.

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Nice to see the build continuing - good luck with the next phase, as above - why did you fill in between? serious question as I left mine empty as an "air gap" between ground.

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Originally Posted by Airportwo

Nice to see the build continuing - good luck with the next phase, as above - why did you fill in between? serious question as I left mine empty as an "air gap" between ground.

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Hey, AP2, how's it going?

We capped off the compacted soil with compacted sand in a plastic membrane (sort of DPC) and also of course the termite control pipes, same as we did for zones 1 and 2.

leveling up the slab before concrete

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Compactor plate over the final layer of soils. Water compaction used on the earlier stata.

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Barrowing in the sand layer...

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...and leveling it

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QAQC in attendance.

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

Hey, AP2, how's it going?

We capped off the compacted soil with compacted sand in a plastic membrane (sort of DPC) and also of course the termite control pipes, same as we did for zones 1 and 2.

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All is well thanks, I can see why you filled ground now, for some reason I was thinking concrete planks would be used! Cheers..........

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Originally Posted by Airportwo

All is well thanks, I can see why you filled ground now, for some reason I was thinking concrete planks would be used! Cheers..........

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We use the planks on the upper floor - pix will follow shortly - we are there now, but there was a delay in me getting the photos - I'm only just getting to grips with the backlog

Termite control

Yes.. the thing I forgot (but luckily K.Pot didn't) from the contract for zone 1 and 2, was remembered this time. Termite pipework and chemicals

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Laying out the pipe

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Drilling the holes to fit the nozzles

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Fitting the nozzles

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Spraying the chemical over the whole area as the initial 'treatment ' before the slab was laid

and then... the floor slab

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PJ and the photographer only managed err.. no pix at all of this activity so I had to lift this one of the video.

You can see the plastic membrane down over the newly-sprayed sand layer and the rebar in place, and some dude running about in wet concrete in his bare feet.

...where's Elven Safety?

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Originally Posted by Thai Dhupp

We capped off the compacted soil with compacted sand in a plastic membrane (sort of DPC) and also of course the termite control pipes,

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They did it the same way for our too, must be a common practice,
Lookiing good TD, moving right along, ours is kind of on hold right now waiting on block, so he says.

and some dude running about in wet concrete in his bare feet.

You’re worried about the OHS for the concreter, but not for the pest controller spraying chemicals without any PPE ?

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Originally Posted by dennis4558

They did it the same way for our too, must be a common practice,
Lookiing good TD, moving right along, ours is kind of on hold right now waiting on block, so he says.

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Hey Dennis... thanks yes we are still moving along so I will try to fly the construction flag til you get going again. (lol..I hope its not 'builders block'...!)

I got to try 'n upload the backlog of photos before I leave for LoS on the 19th

K.Pot is pushing ahead because he wants to be PAID lol....

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Originally Posted by mikenot

and some dude running about in wet concrete in his bare feet.

You’re worried about the OHS for the concreter, but not for the pest controller spraying chemicals without any PPE ?

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hi Mike, lol yeah the spray guy said he had developed 'immunity' due to breathing it all his life (and he isn't actually a termite so its possible)...whereas..

...you cant build up immunity to a chemical burn.... you walk in the concrete- the skin gets hot over time, otherwise known as skin damage - you ignore it for a few hours - then you go to the hospital because its become really painful, after dousing it in water to wash it off (the worst thing you can do as its a chemical burn and the reaction is triggered by...water) - the doctor takes a quick look - then you go to the theatre and the foot is removed.

Elven Safety confirm.. chemical burn with cement is really horrible in extreme cases because it creeps up on you.

Often by the time you realise something is not right... it's too late.

Well...its that time if year again... we got back late from a v good Christmas lunch at the Sportsmans bar over in Pattaya and then..back to work on the kitchen.Merry Christmas to one and all... the very best seasons greetings to you all. This year raced past...I hope in all slows down in 2020. Here's to it and to all good things for the New Year. Cheers!!!

Merry Christmas to you too, Thai Dhupp.